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04554cam a22003494a 4500 001 C4810C6AFBD011DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 003 SILO 005 20240614012153 008 090212s2009 nyua b 000 0 eng 010 $a 2009005800 020 $a 1591027152 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781591027157 (pbk. : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)262889539 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d YDXCP $d OCLCQ $d C#P $d BWX $d CDX $d VP@ $d ABG $d IOL $d SILO 050 00 $a Q173 $b .S4265 2009 082 00 $a 500 $2 22 245 0 $a Science under siege : $b defending science, exposing pseudoscience / $c edited by Kendrick Frazier. 260 $a Amherst, N.Y. : $b Prometheus Books, $c 2009. 300 $a 370 p. : $b ill. ; $c 23 cm. 500 $a Collection of recent articles from Skeptical inquirer. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. 368-370). 505 00 $t A patently false myth-- still! / $t Science and the public : summing up thirty years of the Skeptical inquirer / $r Samuel Sass. $t In defense of the higher values / $r Kendrick Frazier ; $t Ann Druyan talks about science, religion, wonder, awe-- and Carl Sagan / $r Ann Druyan ; $t Carl Sagan's last Q&A on science and skeptical inquiry supplemented with Ann Druyan's "The great turning away" / $r Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan ; $t Can the sciences help us to make wise ethical judgments? / $r Paul Kurtz ; $t Science wars : science and the Bush Administration / $r Chris Mooney ; $t Do extraordinary claims really require extraordinary evidence? / $r Massimo Pigliucci ; $t The fallacy of misplaced rationalism / $r Robert Sheaffer -- $t Critical inquiry and public controversies. $t "We find that intelligent design is not science" : excerpts from the Dover Federal Court ruling on intelligent design / $r John E. Jones III ; introduction by Kendrick Frazier ; $t The "vise strategy" undone : Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District / $r Barbara Forrest ; $t Four common myths about evolution / $r Charles Sullivan and Cameron McPherson Smith ; $t Only a theory? Framing the evolution/creation issue / $r David Morrison ; $t Is intelligent design creationism? / $r Massimo Pigliucci ; $t The memory wars / $r Martin Gardner ; $t AIDS denialism vs. science / $r Nicoli Nattrass ; $t Global climate change triggered by global warming / $r Stuart D. Jordan ; $t The global warming debate : science and scientists in a democracy / $r Stuart D. Jordan ; $t A skeptical look at September 11th : how we can defeat terrorism by reacting to it more rationally / $r Clark R. Chapman and Alan W. Harris ; $t Strong response to terrorism not necessarily a symptom of fallacious statistical reasoning or human cognitive limitations / $r Steven Pinker ; $t The anti-vaccination movement / $r Steven Novella ; $t Vaccine safety : vaccines are one of public health's great accomplishments / $r Richard G. Judelsohn ; $t Warning : animal extremists are dangerous to your health / $r P. Michael Conn and James V. Parker ; $t Predator panic : a closer look / $r Benjamin Radford ; $t The case for decentralized generation of electricity / $r Thomas R. Casten and Brennan Downes -- $t Understanding pseudoscience, investigating claims. $t The philosophy behind pseudoscience / $r Mario Bunge ; $t The Columbia University "miracle" study : flawed and fraud : supplemented with Third strike for Columbia University Prayer Study : author plagiarism / $r Bruce Flamm ; $t Anomalous cognition : a meeting of the minds / $r Amir Raz ; $t Anomalous cognition? : a second perspective / $r Ray Hyman ; $t The PEAR proposition : fact or fallacy? : supplemented with PEAR lab closes, ending decades of psychic research / $r Stanley Jeffers ; $t Gary Schwartz/s energy healing experiments : the emperor's new clothes? / $r Harriet Hall ; $t Testing Natasha / $r Ray Hyman ; $t "Dr." Bearden's vacuum theory / $r Martin Gardner ; $t Lessons of the "fake moon flight" myth / $r James Oberg ; $t Magnet therapy : a billion-dollar boondoggle / $r Bruce L. Flamm ; $t Oxygen is good-- even when it's not there / $r Harriet A. Hall ; $t Undercover among the spirits : investigating Camp Chesterfield / $r Joe Nichell ; $t How to "haunt" a house / $r Benjamin Radford ; $t The devious art of improvising, Lessons one and two / $r Massimo Polidoro ; $t A patently false myth-- still! / $r Samuel Sass. 650 0 $a Science $v Miscellanea. 650 0 $a Pseudoscience. 700 1 $a Frazier, Kendrick. 730 0 $a Skeptical inquirer. 941 $a 3 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926092208.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20120307012355.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20100901010429.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C4810C6AFBD011DEB3E93EDF5F36B428 994 $a 02 $b IOLInitiate Another SILO Locator Search